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Chen, Q. Jim Lead Associate Professor
Room 3418D, Patrick F. Taylor Hall |
Faculty
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Acharya, Sumanta Professor
Department: Mechanical Engineering |
| Dr. Sumanta Acharya is an L.R. Daniel professor in LSU's Mechanical Engineering department. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. His research interestes include computational and experimental heat transfer, fluid mechanics and combustion. | |
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Bourdin, Blaise Associate professor Associate Professor
Room 344, Lockett Hall |
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Diener, Peter Research Professor Assistant Professor
Room 220, Johnston Hall |
| Peter Diener is an assistant professor of research in the LSU Department of Physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin, the California Institute of Technology, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics before joining CCT. | |
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Gilmanov, Anvar Research Associate Professor Associate Professor
Room 22, Johnston Hall |
| Gilmanov Anvar is an research associate professor in mechanical engineering. He received his Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics from Novosibirsk Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Russian Academy of Sciences - RAS) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kazan Institute of Mechanics and Engineering (RAS) and led its efforts in computational fluid dynamics for a number of years before joining CCT. | |
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Khonsari, Michael Dow Chemical Endowed Chair and Professor
Department: Mechanical Engineering |
| Dr Khonsari earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. At LSU he holds the Dow Chemical Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he is also the Director of the Center for Rotating Machinery. His research interests are in friction, lubrication and wear of machinery, machinery performance analysis, numerical analysis and heat transfer. Dr Khonsari serves as the EPSCoR Project Director in Sponsored Programs for the Louisiana Board of Regents. | |
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Pullin, Jorge Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical Physics
Room 241-C, Nicholson Hall |
| Jorge Pullin is the Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical physics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Instituto Balseiro, National Commission of Atomic Energy in Bariloche, Argentina. | |
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Schnetter, Dr. Erik Assistant Research Professor IT Consultant
Department: Center for Computation & Technology |
| Erik Schnetter is a researcher in the Coast-to-Cosmos focus area at the CCT. His main scientific interests include black holes and neutron stars in relativistic computational astrophysics as well as high performance computing and software frameworks in computer science. He joined the CCT in September 2005. Erik is the original author and the project leader of Carpet, the adaptive mesh refinement and multi-block driver for Cactus. He is principal investigator of the NSF "Alpaca" grant to invent new, framework-based profiling and debugging tools for HPC environments. He also participates in the XiRel collaboration to create and improve software infrastructure for numerical relativity. | |
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Twilley, Dr. Robert R. Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Full Professor
Department: Oceanography & Coastal Science |
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Tyagi, Dr. Mayank Designated Professor (PETE & CCT)
Room 211, Johnston Hall |
| I am interested in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) specifically in complex biological systems, turbulent engineering/environmental systems. I am also interested in developing numerical schemes/solvers to address the challenging problems in a computationally efficient way. I am currently working as project manager for the cactus framework based CFD Toolkit | |
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White, Christopher Chevron Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Department: Petroleum Engineering |
Staff
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Loeffler, Dr. Frank IT Consultant
Room 202, Johnston Hall |
| Frank Loeffler is a postdoctoral researcher in the numerical relativity group at CCT. He received his PhD from the Albert-Einstein-Institute in Germany and completed a VESF fellowship at SISSA, Italy. He is interested in dynamics of compact astrophysical objects, e.g., neutron stars, black holes and processes creating them, e.g., supernovae. He is also currently leading the Einstein Toolkit and co-leading the Cactuscode project at CCT. | |
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Tao, Dr. Jian Research Scientist IT Consultant
Room 210, Johnston Hall |
| Jian Tao is a research scientist at CCT. He received his Ph.D in computational astrophysics from Washington University in St. Louis. Before joining CCT as a research scientist, he worked at CCT as a postdoc in the XiRel and CyberTools projects. He is actively involved in the Cactus framework group and helps to manage the cyberinfrastructure development of the NG-CHC project. He is currently working on CaCUDA, a GPGPU programming framework to support automatic code generation and optimization for scientific applications on high end GPU/CPU hybrid systems. He is also working on a Boussinesq model for ocean surface wave to simulate storm surge and tsunami. | |
